Carlo Montali is now the executive director for the Gamma photo agency in Paris. He was named to the post on March 1, 2008, and he says he will spend one week of the month in the New York offices. Gamma was created in 1967 and is now part of a larger French picture group, Eyedea, that includes eight photo agencies including Keystone France and Rapho. (April 3 2008)
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Preston Gannaway has left The Concord Monitor in New Hampshire to be a staff photojournalist at The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, CO. Gannaway's departure is the second major change in the Monitor's photography department this month. For many years the bylines of Gannaway and photography editor Dan Habib were synonymous with excellence in photojournalism in Concord, and now both have left the newspaper. In early March, Habib left to become a filmmaker in residence at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire. Gannaway says she starts her new job in Denver on April 7. (March 26 2008)
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Guinevere Smith has been appointed national entertainment photo editor for the Associated Press. Smith has been with Getty Images since 1999, most recently as North American manager for field editing.
As national entertainment photo editor, based in Los Angeles, she will direct, develop and enhance AP's entertainment photo coverage in the United States. AP national photo editor Victor Vaughan said Smith's responsibilities will also include working with Canadian Press to coordinate entertainment coverage in North America. In 2006, Smith was promoted to North American manager for field editing, managing live coverage of sports and entertainment events. She succeeds Dan Becker, who was named AP director of entertainment content in January. (March 24 2008)
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Mark Holm, who was director of photography for The Albuquerque Tribune until E.W. Scripps Co. closed the newspaper in February, has been named the new photo editor for The Concord Monitor in New Hampshire. Holm replaces long-time photo editor Dan Habib, who is leaving the Monitor after 12 years to become a filmmaker in residence at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire. During Holm's tenure in Albuquerque the Tribune was one of the top photography newspapers in the country. (March 13, 2008)
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Matt Knisely, director of photojournalism for KMSP-TV Fox9 News in Minneapolis, has announced he's leaving the station to spend more time working with a creative consulting firm that he founded to work with non-profit charity organizations, yourvisionmedia.com, and to work as the director of communication and media for Lawton First in Oklahoma.
"The decision to leave was not an easy one, and one I'm sure many of you in this industry are very familiar with, but the decision needed to be made for my family and what I feel I'm being called to do," Knisely said. (March 10, 2008)
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Associated Press national entertainment photography editor Daniel Becker has been appointed to the newly created post of director of entertainment content, AP announced today in Los Angeles. AP says Becker will remain in Los Angles to oversee AP's expanding entertainment coverage across video, photography, audio and text formats and help develop new multimedia products. Becker, 31, is a Rochester Institute of Technology graduate who joined AP in New York as a photo assistant in 2000, then worked as a national and enterprise photo editor before moving to Los Angeles in 2004. (January 3 2008)
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Sally Stapleton, a former top photography editor for the Associated Press in Manhattan, has been named the new assistant managing editor for photography, graphics, and online for The Day in New London, CT. Stapleton will assume her duties in early February, the newspaper reported on December 22. She worked for AP from 1990 through 2004 and was AP's deputy photography editor, and she's a former Fulbright Scholar who has worked for the Tampa Tribune, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Miami Herald, and the Boston Globe. (December 2007)
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Frank Folwell, the deputy managing editor for design for USA Today, announced that he's decided to take a voluntary buyout and his last day at the newspaper will be December 31, 2007. "Of course I will miss USA Today, but I am looking forward to a change," Folwell told News Photographer magazine. Before his many years at USA Today, Folwell was the director of photography for the Des Moines Register for 15 years. For many years he's also served as a member of the board of directors of the National Press Photographers Foundation. (December 2007)
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Bonnie Jo Mount has been named as the new photography editor of The Washington Post beginning January 7, 2008, assistant managing editor of photography Michel duCille announced today. And Keith Jenkins will be the Post's new multimedia director working in the Post's newsroom to coordinate digital storytelling efforts. Most recently, Mount has been teaching at Hampton University but before that she was the deputy managing editor for visuals and interactive media at the Raleigh News & Observer in North Carolina, where she has also been the director of photography. In her career Mount has also been photography director for the Colorado Springs Gazette, photography editor for the Guide newspaper in Jackson Hole, WY, and a staff photographer at the Free Press in Burlington, VT. She's a graduate of the University of South Florida, did graduate work at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, and is a former John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. (December 2007)
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Rich Beckman is retiring from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill effective June 30, 2008, to accept an offer to become the John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Visual Journalism in the School of Communication at the University of Miami beginning July 1, 2008. Beckman came to UNC as a photojournalist but a decade ago saw the way the Internet was changing photojournalism, so he became one of the leaders in multimedia storytelling. “The opportunity at Miami will allow me a very different kind of experience," Beckman said. "I’ll teach one graduate seminar and one project course each year and have extensive time and resources to work within the industry and the academy to develop new multimedia storytelling models and tools. I’ll be developing a variety of courses and be deeply involved in training journalism professionals and journalism faculties around the world in teaching journalism within the ever-evolving new media paradigm." (November 2007)
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Curt Chandler left The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to become a senior lecture in multimedia photojournalism at Penn State University's journalism school. He was the paper's director of photography for five years before moving into their online efforts, and before leaving the Post-Gazette he trained the photography staff and reporters on ways to create and produce multimedia projects for the Web. Chandler joins former Post-Gazette chief photographer John Beale at Penn State, where Beale's been a senior lecturer in photojournalism since leaving the paper in January.
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Pete Souza, Washington-based photographer for the Chicago Tribune, has taken a company buyout and in September will become an assistant professor of photojournalism at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication in Athens, OH. Souza was official White House Photographer for President Ronald Reagan, and for the past two years has been documenting the rise of Barack Obama. (June 2007)
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Alex Burrows, director of photography for The Virginian-Pilot, will retire from the newspaper on June 8, 2007. (June 2007)
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Ken Lyons recently moved to the Denver Post as senior photo editor. He joins Tim Rasmussen who moved to Denver as AME/Photography. Ken was formerly the director of photography at the Orlando Sentinel. Like Tim, he's fleeing the hurricanes of Florida for the blizzards of Denver. Before moving to Florida, Ken worked as a photographer and picture editor for the Daily Press in Hampton Roads, VA. Ken, his wife and two daughters plan to reside in Parker, Colorado. (June 2007)
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"After four years, and too many hurricanes, I'm leaving the Sun-Sentinel and Florida to move to Denver!" Tim Rasmussen told colleagues this week. Beginning December 4, Rasmussen will be the new assistant managing editor of photography for The Denver Post, leaving his current post as director of photography for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "We have loved some parts of Florida, and the competition with the Herald and Palm Beach Post has been great. We will miss the beach, but getting home to the West is very exciting." Rasmussen has been active in the Associated Press Photo Managers Association, and is a frequent team leader at the Eddie Adams Barnstorm Workshops. (October 2006)
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Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Todd Heisler will be leaving the photography staff of The Rocky Mountain News to join the staff of The New York Times in December 2006. Heisler, an NPPA member since 1997, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his year-long essay, "Final Salute." Heisler's photographs were also recognized last year with multiple NPPA Best Of Photojournalism contest awards and other top honors from the photojournalism world. He was part of the Rocky's team that won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Colorado's wildfires. He is a 1994 graduate of Illinois State University. (October 2006)
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Jack Rowland has been been promoted to deputy director of photography at the St. Petersburg Times, photography director Boyzell Hosey announced. A graduate of the University of Florida, Rowland joined the Times in 1986 and has been a photographer, picture editor, and director of photo technology for the paper. He joined NPPA in 1986 as well. "Jack is a seasoned visual journalist who possesses an abundance of technical and editing knowledge that has only enhanced his great photojournalism skills," Hosey wrote in his announcement. "A longtime anchor of the photo staff, Jack's commitment to excellence and accountability makes him an ideal choice to lead the operations and logistical side of the department." (May 24, 2006)
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Boyzell Hosey, 41, an NPPA member since 1994, has been named the new director of photography at the St. Petersburg Times. He's a Pennsylvania native who studied at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Ohio University before working at The State in Columbia, SC. Hosey joined the Times in 1998 as a photographer and editor. He's been a senior photo editor for the Times and has supervised photographers in the Clearwater and Tampa bureaus, and served as interim photography director since Sue Morrow left for the Sacramento Bee in August, 2005. Hosey was named deputy director of photography for the Times in 2004. The Times has 46 photographers, picture editors, and technicians. (February 2, 2006)
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The' N. Pham, an NPPA member since 1984, is the new deputy director of photography for The Houston Chronicle, leaving his post at the Kansas City Star to join his former coworker and Chronicle director of photography Steve Gonzales in Texas. Gonzales also left Kansas City almost a year ago to become the Chronicle's new photography director in November 2004. He's been an NPPA member since 1995. Joe Ledford has been named the new director of photography in Kansas City, where he's been a staff photojournalist. (October 27, 2006)
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Damon Kiesow, chairperson for NPPA's Northern Short Course, has been named the new managing editor/online for The Telegraph in Nashua, NH, starting in November. Kiesow, the principal photo editor at American Online News and Sports, has been with AOL for six years. "This is a new position at the paper, so it is a great opportunity to build out the job, have some fun, and hopefully make some great things happen," Kiesow wrote. He's been an NPPA member since 1992. (October 11, 2005)
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Scott Jensen is returning to television news after being away from it for more than a year. Jensen, the 2003 NPPA Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year while he was at KARE-TV in Minneapolis, sent an eMail to friends this week saying that he's accepted the job of director of photography for KTUU-TV in Anchorage, Alaska, returning to the state where he grew up. For the past year he has been running News Crew Cabinets. "The prospect of going back to my childhood home to help guide a staff of eager television photojournalists in a place as varied and visual as Alaska, and with the wholehearted support of station ownership and management, makes this perhaps the most exciting time of my career," Jensen wrote. (September 30, 2005)
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Sue Morrow, assistant managing editor for photography for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, is leaving the newspaper after nearly six years to go back west to Northern California where she’s going to be the new deputy director of photography for The Sacramento Bee. Morrow says she’ll be working with the features department, doing project editing and some design work, and will be serving as a photo coach while reporting to Bee photography director Mark Morris.
“Some say I’m trading hurricanes for earthquakes,” Morrow told News Photographer. “But I will remember the St. Petersburg Times as a unique place to commit journalism. Its leaders truly value distinctive journalism above the pressure for profit, which is hard to beat in these days in newspapers. Returning to the west coast feels like going home again. I’m looking forward to being ‘hands on’ with content again, and to work with another bunch of extremely talented journalists, of which I’ve been blessed to experience for many years in this business.”
Before St. Petersburg, Morrow was with the San Jose Mercury News for about a decade as an assignments editor, a features picture editor, a features design director, and then as the assistant art director of their magazine. She’s also been a picture editor at The Boston Globe and was a features designer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Morrow graduated from Indiana University with a BA in Journalism in 1988.
The deputy director's position at the Bee was available because Tahra Makinson-Sanders left to become the Santa Rosa Press Democrat's new director of photography, filling the position once held by the late John Metzger who died in April 2005 of a heart attack while on a family vacation in Hawaii. Metzger was a nationally acclaimed photographer, picture editor, and director of photography who seven times was an NPPA regional Photographer of the Year. (August 16, 2005)
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Also moving from St. Petersburg to Sacramento is Times staff photojournalist Michael Rondou, who has been covering the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Olympics for the newspaper. Morrow says that Rondou hasn’t yet decided whether he’ll freelance or take on some new opportunities once they’re back in Northern California. Before the Times, Rondou was a staff photojournalist at the San Jose Mercury News since 1987. He graduated from Cal State Fulterton in 1981 after a mid-life career change to become a photojournalist. (August 16, 2005)
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Juliette Coughlin is the new director of photography at The Ventura County Star and she started her new role at the newspaper in July. Before the Star, she was the weekend photography editor and a staff photographer at the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Chattanooga, TN. Before that was a staff photojournalist for The Post and Courier in Charleston, SC. Coughlin is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism with a BA in Journalism in 1994. (July 26, 2005)
